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[Neon]

Bon Echo Alpha 1 is a developer preview release of our next generation Firefox browser and it is being made available for testing purposes only. Bon Echo Alpha 1 is intended for web application developers and our testing community. Current users of Mozilla Firefox 1.x should not use Bon Echo Alpha 1.

These Release Notes cover what's new, download and installation instructions, known issues and frequently asked questions for the Bon Echo Alpha 1 release. Please read these notes and the bug filing instructions before reporting any bugs to Bugzilla.

[atsaunier]

Great Find man

[error51]

Great find! This is neat when it works.

Just a warning to everyone, only install this on a test system. If you don't have a test system, don't install it. Firefox alpha builds are usually pretty buggy, especially early ones like this.

[ShadowFox]

cool not a big Firefox fan anymore but If I get froggy I'll give it a go

[error51]

The only thing that I like about Firefox betas as compared to IE betas is that you can easily install an older version if you don't like the beta. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you can even have multiple builds of Firefox installed at once simply by changing the installation directory.

[clarky3429]

cool!!! im probobly not going to use it for a little while, do we have any screenshots?? is the GUI the same?

[Neon]

I will put it on spare pc later and add some screenies, i dont expect any noticeable changes apart from lack of performance...firefox already eats as much as 150mb Ram for some people

[Linoman]

Hmmm maybe I'll try this alpha when its at its second build. I mean Firefox 1.6a beta is so damn buggy. One thing I have to say Firefox makers work on the memory leaks PLEASE

[error51]

I have three multiple tabbed windows open that I have had open for the last week on this computer and I'm using 41MB of RAM for Firefox.

Version 1.5.0.1


~Edit by Me~
I just downloaded this to try it out. It seams stable. There are some good bug fixes. When downloading pictures, it doesn't freeze on ya for half a second. Everything is surprisingly pretty stable and is preparing to crash right when I push the complete edit button. lol.

Edited by xCIAx, 27 March 2006 - 07:39 AM.

[VROSA]

I installed it on my Laptop and it seams quite stable B) .
Anyway, I'm going to uninstall it in a few days, at least until Alpha2 is released, cos its on my job laptop.

Some screenies:

 bonechoa1.jpg   39.27K   58 downloads  novo_3.jpg   148.1K   62 downloads

B)

[error51]

^^^^ It doesn't really look any different. ^^^^

As for performance, I consider it to be just like my car. When it works, it flys down the road at 150MPH. When it doesn't work, you have to know how to fix it and make it work again which really isn't a problem if you have a brain.

If you didn't understand that, it's not really a problem to run it if you know how to baby it. Chances are if you are here, you know or could figure out how to baby it and make it work.

[clarky3429]

yeah it looks the same pretty much, well hopefully they will be able to really increase the performance, give firefox users something more to brag about lolol

[Neon]

xCIAx, on Mar 27 2006, 06:46 AM, said:

~Edit by Me~
I just downloaded this to try it out. It seams stable. There are some good bug fixes. When downloading pictures, it doesn't freeze on ya for half a second. Everything is surprisingly pretty stable and is preparing to crash right when I push the complete edit button. lol.

Cool....should i risk...mmm

[error51]

I would risk it. There really isn't that much risk. I have been running it constantly and all is well.

[Neon]

then i shall

When i next turn my pc on